A Nigerian man was sentenced to three years and five months in prison by a United States judge on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to taking part in email scams to defraud thousands of victims around the world of millions of dollars.
David Chukwuneke Adindu, 30, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge, Paul Crotty, in Manhattan, according to an announcement from Acting U.S. Attorney, Joon Kim, in Manhattan.
Prosecutors said in a court filing Tuesday that Adindu tricked victims into wiring more than $25 million into bank accounts he opened in China, where they said the funds would be difficult for victims in the U.S to recover.
Gary Conroy, a lawyer for Adindu, said the Nigerian’s role consisted mostly of setting up bank accounts in China and Hong Kong.
He noted that the sentence was substantially less than the 97 to 121 months called for by federal guidelines.
“I think the judge accurately assessed his relatively minor role in this conspiracy,” Reuters quoted Conroy as saying after the ruling.
Adindu defrauded his victims by impersonating executives or vendors of companies, prosecutors said, directing employees of those companies to make large wire transfers.
Reuters reported that such scams are known as “business email compromise.”
Prosecutors said in Tuesday’s court submission that the U.S Federal Bureau of Investigation has found that business email compromise scammers often use Chinese bank accounts.
Adindu was arrested at a Houston airport last year.
Prosecutors said in an indictment that Adindu, who during the period in question resided in both Guangzhou, China, and Lagos, Nigeria, worked with others to carry out business email compromise scams from 2014 to 2016.
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